Pyconn

All this fairytale talk is making me sad :-( this will probably be my least favorite house then. Again this is all my perspective and my opinion. Fairytale twists on horror not scary. Not at all. It’s a creative take on certain stories we grew up with for sure. As far as the event goes, super disappointed if this is all true. what was so great about last year and some of the best original houses from the past and to date, was that all of them were grounded in reality to one degree or another. Ghosts, demons, vampires, serial killers, zombies, folk tales, and certain instances of “science gone wrong” are all grounded in reality, which allows people to suspend belief for a brief period and in some part of our minds even just a tiny bit believe that what they are experiencing could actually be real. That’s what’s made all of the houses like Dead End, Scarecrow, legendary truth, Hive, Dead Waters, Gothic, physcoscareapy(spelling) so effective and truely some of the best original houses (again all my opinion). We all grew up with stories of Snow White, The Wizard of oz, alive in wonderland etc; and its very hard to get to that state of imersion and suspension of disbelief and the houses always tend to rely on a gimmic (3D or rich colors) or cheap jump scares. They just aren’t scary. I could go on and on. I’ll likely do this house once and call it enough for me. Not trying to offend anyone here, and again just my opinion. Pyconn

any word on the next announcement or full reveal timeline? I find myself consuming any and all HHN media around this time of year in anticipation.

Welp, I obviously have nothing concrete to go on but the Map. I am not cleaver enough to decipher clues. So I guess I’ll just have to play the waiting game with everyone else and secretly hope that OZ is not a house. The mid-summer scream HHN panel gave some great incite on some of the big name IP houses. So I am super excited about those and who knows slaughter Sinema could end up surprising me. Like I said before, last years original houses are a tough act to follow.

The original houses this year have me concerned. I have never been a fan of “funny houses” (excluding ash vs evil dead). So I am really not that excited about slaughter sinema. Cult of the beast baby and Amazon canibals from planet hell sounds wayyy to cheesey. Carnival Graveyard seems very promising I really really hope that Oz is not a house. I never liked Houses/scarezones based on fairytales (Asylume in wonderland scary-tales etc.) sooo I hope the map is wrong but so far it’s been 100% accurate to date. I know it’s hard to follow up such an awesome year for original houses like last year was... anyway just my two cents. -Pyconn